Zellig Miller; Flip Floppin Chameleon

[mburbank]

I see his speech and his behavior afterward (wishing he could DUEL Matthews and talking about getting "UP IN HIS FACE) served the same sort of function Buchanaan's speech did for Bush Senior. I think having someone who's having trouble controlling himself delivering a keynote speech isn't a good thing.

As far as hurting Kerry Goes? I sincerely doubt it. I think Mccain favoring party loyalty over his knowledge of what a dirty fighter W and company are will hurt Kerry a lot more, and I don't think that will hurt him all that much. If Zell had said "You know, as a Democrat, I disagee with W a lot, but I think he's the better man for the job" he might have had some credability and done some damage, but to come off as too the right of every one of the previous nights speakers and to foam at the mouth and flip out at a reporter for daring to question him... To me he looked like an old guy who'd gone crackers. Everyone has the in their families. It's what makes Thanskgiving dinner such a scary prospect.

as far as the 'merits' went? hard to see them through the hot spittle, but... saying that nothing made 'This Marine' angrier than someon who saw America as occupiers instead of liberators'... I mean, is he aware that we accepted our role as occupiers, in a thorough and legal sense. And that W. never denied we were an occupying force... and that 'occupier' and 'liberator' aren't even mutually exclusive terms...

Aside from Redest of red meat Republicans, who would find that speech anything but kind of sad and scary?